Jason Pym’s Great Artwork for Badlands

As you probably know I have a small Penguin Special e-book out (in Australia only I’m afraid till next March/April in the UK/US) called Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking (e-book here and limited edition hardback here) – it’s a collection of short stories based on minor characters that appeared flickeringly in Midnight in Peking – the prostitutes Marie and Peggy, their pimp Saxsen, the brothel madams Brana and Rosie, a Badlands dancer Lilian, the drug dealer Joe Knauf and the mercurial chameleon “King of the Badlands” Shura.

In Australia, China and Hong Kong it’s available as a lovely limited edition hardback too – illustrated by Jason Pym – who did a wonderful map of the old Badlands (from my extremely scrappy back of envelope scribbles!) and illustrations through the text – they’re included in both hardback and e-book and look great – you can see some of his illustrations at his own blog here.